Garment-marking device



April 15 1924.

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GARMENT-MARKING DEVICE.

Application filed March '7, 1921. Serial No. 450,119.

T all whom it may concern 1 Be it known that we, Assn Ross and WARREN C. Mixers, citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Garment-Marking Device, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is primarily designed for the use of tailors and dressmakers, being particularly adapted to mark a skirt or other garment instantaneously in a circle while it is being fitted or suspended from a person or a form. The marking medium is in the form of a fine powder, and compressed air is used to jet the powder in spots upon the garment. By adjusting the marker vertically a circular line of spots may be marked in a true horizontal plane at different distances from a given base, and to obtain a responsive movement and an accurate setting of the marker :1, counter balance is connected to the marker by means of a flexible measuring tape.

In the drawing accompanying this application, Fig. 1 is a horizontal elevation, and Fig. 2 a vertical section of the device. Fig. 3 is a perspective of a portion of the suspensory measuring tape, and Fig. 4: a sectional view of a portion of the marking tube.

The inventive concept as exemplified herein comprises a base member 2 having a round tubular standard 3 at one side thereof. Base 2 may be solid and made in any desired shape, but as shown it is in the form of a hollow ring and made of metal, preferably aluminum, and has a boss 4 adapted to receive the round tube 3. The upper end of this tube is provided with a combined cap and pin tray 5, and a roller or sheave 6 is journaled within the upper end of the tube opposite a central opening 7 in the cap or tray. A weight 8 is free to slide vertically Within tube 8 and is suspended by a steel strap 9 from roller 6, and one side of this strap is provided with a tape measure 10 which may be read through sight opening 7 at all times. Strap 9 passes around a second'sheave or roller 11 and thence down ward to where it is attached to the sleeve 12 of a tubular marking ring 13 correspond ing approximately to the diameter of base ring 2. Sleeve 12 is freely slidable upon the tubular post or standard 3 and a binding action is prevented by attaching the strap 10 to the sleeve between the ring and the post, the weight 8 s rving as a counter- I poise for the marking ring.

The inner circumference .of the marking ring is provided with a number of small orifices 14 evenly spaced at close intervals and open to the hollow interior of the ring within which a very fine powder may be placed through stoppered openings 15 at the top side of the ring. The interior bot-.

tom side of the ring may be scalloped or ribbed transversely to pocket small portions of the powder opposite each orifice 14:, and a rubber bulb 16 aflixed to a nipple 17 at one side of the ring provides a simple means for compressing the air within the ring whenever marking is to take place. Thus a quick compression of bulb 16 will create a sudden inrush of air into the marking ring and cause a small amount of powder to be jetted through each orifice 14, and when the bulb is released and assumes its normal shape a suction is created which clears the orifices of powder.

In use the marking ring is lowered or brought close to the base and the person wearing the skirt to be marked steps into the ring and takes a central position in respect thereto. The marking ring is then raised to the desired height and in encirclin relation to the bottom edge of the skirt, and the bulb compressed, care being taken that the person is standing in a natural and upright position. The powder jetted through the openings in the ring marks the garment clearly and distinctly and evenly and the operation takes but an instant without the slightest inconvenience or fatigue to the wearer of the garment, and by lowering and raising the marking ring, the operation can be repeated at another point in perfect parallel alignment with the first mark. If desired, the powder may be placed within the bulb 16, or in lieu of a bulb 16 any equivalent device may be used which will create a sudden pressure within the ring or cause the powder to be jetted through the orifices or slots radially toward the center of the ring. However, it should be understood that only a small amount of powder is discharged, preferably merely enough powder to make a distinct spot or mark, consequently the interval of flow of the air and powder is'v'ery limited and the amount of powder discharged is only approximately the amount which would collect within each orifice.

What We claim is:

1. A device "for marking garments, comprising a singletubular standard, a hollow perforated ring carried by and vertically adjustable upon said standard, a counterweight forsaid ring adapted to slide within said standard, a suspensory connection between said counterweight and ring supported by said standard, and a bulbassociated with said ring adapted to force a powder into said ring to effect marking of a garment simultaneously at a plurality of points opposite the inner circumference of said ring where perforated.

2. A device for marking garments, comprising a tubular standard and a marking ring slidably supported upon said standard, a tape measure connected with said ring at one side of said standard, 'a sheave at the top of said standard forsaid'tape measure,

and a counterweight supported within said standard by one end ofsaid tape measure.

3. A: device for marking garments comprising a base member having a tubular standard at one side'tl1ereof,'a sheave within the upper end or said standard, a tubular ring slidably mounted upon said standard and having a series of orifices at its inner circumference, an air compressing bulb connected with said ring, a counterweight within said standard, and a flexible connection passing over said sheave and connected at one end to said counterweight and at the other end to said ring.

Signed at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio this 5th day of March, 1921.

ABEL osa. WARREN o. MAGEE. 

